About the role

Staff Systems Engineer leading end-to-end SAR mission engineering for a global Earth-observation satellite company. Owning mission design, spacecraft budgets, risk, verification, calibration, and early operations.

Responsibilities

Provide end-to-end oversight of SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission
Own the mission concept of operations and high-level mission specifications, including spacecraft budgets that drive the SAR payload
Lead technical solutions for current and future SAR missions, including beam mode design, mission concept design, and SAR image quality modelling
Lead mission-level risk management, integration, verification, and validation
Run design trade-offs across spacecraft systems, coverage and access, SAR payload, SAR processor, and end-user applications
Own the SAR aspects of commissioning, calibration, and early operations
Advise senior management and new business
Mentor the team

Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math or Physics (or equivalent experience)
15+ years with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems (hardware, processors and/or data products)
10+ years in a space systems engineering or similar complex systems environment
SAR remote sensing experience: system design, operation, applications/exploitation and/or calibration
Strong communicator across technical, sales, executive and customer audiences
US citizen or permanent resident (export-control and Controlled Goods requirements)
Nice to have: MATLAB, Python; satellite SAR payload design and operations; space mission design (coverage and access, orbital dynamics); spacecraft design (thermal, power, pointing); geospatial data